W.H.O's SKEWED PRIORITIES - "Ninety percent of AIDS cases in the world are in developing countries where there is no treatment,'' Dellums said. Less than 1 percent of AIDS drugs are sold in African nations south of the Sahara Desert, where 70 percent of new HIV infections occur."

Former Congressman Ron Dellums is on a begging tour to prick liberal guilt in order to pressure the United States to cough up billions for AIDS treatment in Sub-Sahara Africa. His heart may be in the right place but the organization he should be addressing is the United Nation's World Health Organization which has decided, at the behest of the pharmaceutical companies, to make tobacco the centerpiece of WHO's global activities.

Although Dellums' goal of relieving the sufferning in Africa due to AIDS and possibly averting a horrendous crisis is worthy of attention, the United States should bear down on the corrupt WHO bureaucrats who expect this country to finance a needless anti-smoking campaign that diverts fund from the real problems facing the developing world.

NO LONGER SHEEP II - A letter to the rabidly anti-smoking editors at The San Francisco Chronicle provides hope that the American public is catching on to the ridiculous scam of blaming smoking for every ailment known to man. The letter is an inciteful comment on the cretinous verdict rendered last week in Florida. A jury of six automatons decided that the tobacco industry was liable for injuries due to the cigarettes it makes. Billions could be ripped off from the companies although the folks really paying the damages will be the smokers themselves. It should be noted that the writer obviously doesn't get his facts from the newspaper to whom he writes.

NEW ZEALAND: NEW JUNK SCIENCE PULLED OUT OF THE HAT TODAY -- AND ADVERTISED BY BBC! - PASSIVE SMOKING STROKE RISK - A new piece of junk science has been just pulled out of the hat in New Zealand. Steven Milloy's Junkscience describes it as follows:

JUNK OF THE DAY II: "Passive smoking stroke risk" The BBC reports, "Non-smokers significantly increase their risk of stroke - by as much as 82% - if they live or work with a smoker, researchers have found." Click here for the study. Aside from the weak association based on self-reported data, this study classified some former smokers as nonsmokers. So stroke that perhaps should be attributed to the smoking lifestyle was attributed instead to passive smoking. Typically, nonsmokers are defined as those who have smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes."

Of course, there is overwhelming evidence for the lack of ANY heart disease from primary and passive smoking -- but who cares anyway? THAT does not make news!

But even more "junkish" than the study itself is the BBC article reporting it. No negative comments on the study of course, and great exposure is given to anti-tobacco cartel advocates such as Clive Bates from the omnipresent ASH, an organization devoted to instigate hatred against smokers. Though Clive Bates is a professional liar paid to divulge false information about smoking, BBC even literally gives him VOICE on its website! The anti-tobacco cartel also calls "progressive" the New Zealand legislation that persecutes smokers to the point of letting them die when they need medical assistance. Nowadays, this is normal procedure, as much as it was normal to persecute Jews in Nazi Germany, and call Nazi "medicine" (now rediscovered and appreciated) by the international anti-smoking cartel, "normal."

This has prompted a letter from Gian Turci to BBC with a few "simple questions" to answer -- not that we expect a reply, of course. The anti-tobacco cartel, of which BBC has seemingly become part, has only ears for itself, and for the benefit of the misguided fools who support it and believe it.

BEWARE THE CHILD PROTECTORS - If you have any doubt about what the new Socialist US state wants to do with the sacred institution of family nowadays, just read the above essay from The New American.

Over and over we have said that the "tobacco wars" are just the tip of the iceberg of a much greater degeneration of values and institutions threatening every facet of our life. Where the great dictators failed, the New Left seems to be succeeding: the absolute control of behaviour and choices of the individual in the name of the individual's own protection.

The conditioning of the citizen starts in childhood. The anti-tobacco cartel lies to children about smoking, but this is just part of theconditioning process. Gian Turci has recently written an opinion piece on this very issue. His conclusions:

" A new American Revolution would be (and IS) required to destroy this machine down to its last bolt and screw -- and even bolts and screws would have to be eventually melted, for they could be recycled to create a new doomsday machine.

[ ... ] And once that is done, a powerful mechanism preventing the reconstruction of the socialist model (whether based on health, legal litigation, security & safety, or any other guise) must be built to reinforce and expand the foundations laid by the Founding Fathers. Those great Revolutionaries could not foresee a social cancer that was two centuries away."

FEDERAL LITIGATION AGAINST THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY: ELEVATING POLITICS OVER LAW - Powerful essay by Todd F. Gaziano from The Heritage Foundation on the abuse of the law by anti-tobacco politics and anti-tobacco gangsters -- from Bill Clinton down.

QUICK, PUSH THE LIE BEFORE PEOPLE DISCOVER THE TRUTH! - Totally ignoring Judge Osteen's decision about EPA classification of secondhand smoke, Attorneys for California want the tobacco manufacturers to print labels on cigarette packages warning them of the non-existing dangers of secondhand smoke.

Listening only to itself in an orgasmic orgy of hate, foaming, power-drunk anti-tobacco wants to convince the population about a fraud that does not even have foundations. Honest citizens who smoke have to consider themselves lucky if not arrested -- yet.

ANTI-TOBACCO FACES THE REALITIES OF THE THIRD WORLD - SMOKING BAN LEAVES KERALA TREASURY GASPING - The anti-tobacco cartel has reached Kerala, India. The state police have arrested and fined nearly 3,000 people across the state who were found smoking at bus stands and railway stations, on roads, in offices, hotels and bars. God knows how many have been beaten up.

This sounds like an anti-smoker's dream come true -- especially because originated by the complaint of ONE single woman who, poor soul, " found it difficult to commute in a bus in which her male co-passengers smoked." --- Oohh!

Anyone who has been in an Indian city cannot easily forget the choking atmosphere resulting from the emissions of hundreds of thousands de-tuned junky vehicles. Only people who are sick in the head can find the "emissions" of cigarettes more disturbing than those vehicular emissions.

But this time the supreme fanaticism of the international anti-tobacco cartel is facing the reality of the Third World. Anti-tobacco's fraud, intimidation and violence may force people to quit, BUT:

"The prohibition on smoking in public places has also hit more than 200,000 beedi and cigar workers who will hold massive protest marches and dharnas (sit-in protests) in front of various courts across the state on August 6."

"The tobacco industry accounts for almost 10 per cent of the total annual excise revenue of the Union government, the largest single chunk. In 1998-99, the Centre's revenue collection from the industry was a whopping Rs 65.37 billion. "

"Since both the Centre and most states are facing insolvency following high fiscal deficits, tobacco majors in the country like ITC and the Golden Tobacco Company expect the Centre to intervene if courts prohibit smoking in public places in other states too."

Why doesn't the international anti-smoking cartel (WHO included) come in and make good on the damage it is causing? Compensate! In a nation ridden with starvation and epidemics, only people in bad faigh can cause such an upheaval that is based, of course, on frauds.

HEALTH AND SAFETY BEFORE LIVING - - A CREEPING PARALYSIS - Slightly aged, but very good article by Philip Atkinson. This apt commentary on the condition by an astute observer Down Under says it all.

"It is not just industry, research and commerce that is stalling but social interaction, the joy of life, which is being frozen. Tobacco and alcohol are two products that supply pleasure to the individual and stability to the community, but to our fearful society they represent only a menace. Smoking is becoming prohibitively expensive, restricted to fewer and fewer areas, and constantly portrayed as a dangerous and anti-social habit. While drinkers have become subject to attack by police. Drivers can be stopped anytime and if they have consumed more than a minimal amount of alcohol, they are fined and lose their licence - a drastic penalty for most people. And as drinking is primarily a social activity which must involve driving, the result is a suppression of socialising, an increase in solitary drinking and a good deal less pleasure for all."

OOPS! MATERNAL SMOKING IS UP -- NO, IT IS NOT UP, IT IS THE SAME... BUT SIDS RATES ARE DOWN! - - Steven Milloy reports: ' Earlier in the week, the BBC reported SIDS rates were down 25 percent in the UK. Because maternal smoking is an often-rumored risk factor for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), I wondered whether the maternal smoking rate had changed. Coincidentally, my question was answered two weeks ago by this Daily Telegraph article which reports, "The number of pregnant smokers has not changed since 1992." [Thanks to Kees van der Griendt for finding the article]. '

But it is not so, Steven!... Last week the same BBC reported that maternal smoking is UP (SMOKING IN PREGNANCY UP AGAIN). It's up, it's down, it's in the middle... The anti-tobacco cartel is pulling the strings of its medical puppets to produce more statistical garbage since pregnant women are the target for this season, as much as penises were the target last season. But the truth is still one: There is absolutely no evidence that SIDS is related to smoking.

SMOKING IN PREGNANCY UP AGAIN - Oops! Notwithstanding the barrage of lies on smoking presently going on in England, British mothers keep on puffing -- more than ever. Not surprising... quickly -- and don't look: what lie is printed on the cigarette pack you are smoking right now? You don't know, right? Why? Because you did not look. Not a great loss. Chances are that it is false information, anyway.

Still about false information, it is not true that smoking during pregnancy harms your baby -- at least judging by the huge amount of evidence against it. Click here and here to see some of it.

Let us go though the list of lies/misinformation of this article. If this does not give a dimension of the misinformation pushed forward by both press and anti-tobacco gangsters, nothing else will.

 

STATEMENTS	FACTS
"Smoking during pregnancy has been shown to harm both the unborn child and the mother."	The overwhelming scientific evidence does not show evidence of harm to either mother, or child. [1] [2]
"The mother is more likely to vomit, get urinary infections and to feel unwell if she smokes during pregnancy."	There is no evidence that vomit, urinary infections, and general feeling of discomfort are due to the use of tobacco. Those same symptoms exist in non-smoking mothers.
"Cot death is associated with smoking during pregnancy."	This is an outright lie. There is no association, and no reasonable evidence whatsoever that smoking causes cot deaths, the origins of which are unknown.
"The risk of miscarriage is increased by 27% and the baby is more likely to develop respiratory illness."	The source of this information is not mentioned, and if it were, the database of the studies most likely would be proprietary, that is, not available for scrutiny.
"Dr. Lesley Owen, senior research manager at the HEA, said: 'The dangers of smoking during pregnancy are now well established.'"	Dr. Lesley Owen is either an incompetent or a liar. The only thing well established so far is the virtually total lack of evidence that smoking during pregnancy harms anyone.
"Clive Bates, director of Action on Smoking and Health, said that although the dangers of smoking during pregnancy were well documented..."	Clive Bates is a liar.

As usual, we are challenging anyone to prove and document that the above statements are true. Who takes up this challenge? Dr. Owen? Mr. Clives? It would be nice to have a public, un-abridged debate on this issue. Any taker at all, anywhere? We did not think so.

WHAT A FACE! - TOBACCO CRITICS COMPLAIN ABOUT SPENDING OF SETTLEMENT - After making an industry out of fabrications and frauds, the anti-tobacco cartel complains that it got "only" 130 million dollars to further its propaganda of hate and misinformation!

The real stomach turner, however, is what Philip Morris declares:

"In Oklahoma, a Philip Morris official on Wednesday urged the state to use its $2.6 billion settlement share to stop youth smoking. 'While the ultimate use of these funds is at the discretion of each state, we hope that they will be used to find workable solutions to tobacco issues, with a special emphasis on youth smoking prevention,' said Steve Parrish, a senior vice president for the tobacco giant."

There you have it folks. Institutionalized rip-off, and a bent-over, spineless corporation reciting the line of the conqueror -- complete with mutual admiration society from crooks to thieves.

What more can you ask for?

HOW THE PRESS DISTORTS INFORMATION FOR YOU - STATE'S FINDING ON SMOKING BAN IGNITES DEBATE - "Specifically, the report says the department can use its powers under Article 10 of the state sanitary code that bans all toxic and poisonous material in public restaurants," says the article talking about secondhand smoke.

But does that include all cleaning fluids, roach killers, etc.? Of course not. We are not talking about a honest, rational dialogue, here. We are talking about a political agenda that abuses and twists the most insignificant law to achieve its goals.

"The debate is occurring against a backdrop of continuing declines in Massachusetts' smoking rate. The latest department figures show cigarette sales have dropped nearly 5 percent in the past 12 months, and more than 35 percent since 1993, when the state's $30 million tobacco control program was launched," the writer continues.

This is a fine example of how information is twisted for the reader to make it appear that the anti-tobacco gans is winning. Because of MA's minimum price for sale law, local tobacconists cannot compete with their New Hampshire neighbours, and go out of business or move across the border. This is because smokers simply go across the border to buy their cigarettes -- or, simpler yet, buy smuggled ones.

How can this be mentiones, however, by a press that is sold out to anti-tobacco? It may even make the cartel look bad. People must be lead to believe that repression is working. Isn't this the purpose of any totalitarian regime?

RAMPAGING SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER - San Franciscans are agog at the antics of City Attorney Louise Renne as she rages up and down the city sniffing cigarette smoke wafting from hip nightclubs and the dingiest of dives. "Did we elect an ayatollah or a city attorney," they ask themselves. Good question considering San Franciscans are inclined to scorn fanatics, whether born again like Renne, or true believers like the American Heart Association.

From the pages of The San Francisco Chronicle comes an opinion piece that pretty much sums up the attitudes of many people in the city. Although the writer veers into Valley Girl territory - I mean, like smoking is, you know so totally gross - his head is in the right place as he deplores the absurdity of targeting one bar for the "sins" of hundreds of others.